By Andrew Marantz — 2020
As democracy hangs in the balance, activists are drawing lessons from the study of civil resistance.
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In order to evaluate what Martin Luther King Jr.’s stance of nonviolence has contributed to our current view of protest, it bears noting that the concept of his nonviolence has been flattened.
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Armed forces long prohibited gay people from service – but that only encouraged their communities and cause.